[Nhcoll-l] Alternative fluid storage methods

Tue Nov 29 20:06:09 EST 2016

If your specimens are all Herps, you might consider plastination as a
viable alternative to resin embedding.  Queen's University Pathology Museum
(Kingston, Ontario) was doing a lot of work on the technique in the
1980's.  If you can track down Wayne Lyons from that facility (probably
retired by now) he could give you some useful advice.
Steve.

Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)
Museum Technician (Retired)
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Watters, Jessa L. <jwatters at ou.edu> wrote:

> I have been asked by a colleague for assistance regarding methods in which
> to ship out fluid preserved specimens for educational purposes in K-12
> schools.  Teachers receiving the specimens will not normally have access to
> ethanol to transfer any cheesecloth-wrapped, ethanol-soaked specimens to a
> jar for use by their students (which is how I would send to another museum,
> university, etc.).  We definitely do not want to break any laws regarding
> shipping of hazardous materials, so we are looking for other methods of
> sharing fluid specimens that still maintains their integrity.  The
> hazardous shipping cost for leaving them as-is in jars of ethanol is also
> prohibitive when the kit is sent out every 2 weeks.
>
> A. Is there another fluid that could be used? (i.e. Carosafe or Carolina
> Perfect Solution or others?).
>
> B. Does anyone have experience with sealing specimens into those acrylic
> resin blocks?  Do specimens need to be prepped in a certain way before this
> is possible?  Or can you take a standard formalin-fixed, ethanol-stored
> specimen and seal it?
>
> Thanks!
> Jessa
>
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